Commutation device for direct-current machines and the like.



B. uuNGsTRiiM M. D.WIDSTRUM.

COMMUTATIDN DEVICE FOR DIRECT CURRENT MACHINES AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED 8.24.1913.

1,228,936. Patented June 5, 1917.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BIRGEB LIUNGSTRUM AND DANIEL WIDS'IROM, 0]? STOCKIIOLM, SWEDEN; SAID:

- WIDSTBDM ASSIGNOR T0 SAID LJUNGSTRfiM.

OOMMU'IATION DEVICEI'OB DIRECT-CURRENT MACHINES AND THE Specification of Letters I 'atcnt.

Patented June 5, 1917.

Application filed February 24, 1918. Serial No. 750,262.

To all whom it may concern: r Be it known that we, Bmona LJuNosrRiSM and Ann. DANIEL Wms'rRoM, citizens of Sweden and subjects of the Kin of Sweden residing at Stockholm, in the gdom of Sweden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Commutation Devices for Direct-Current Machines and the like, of which the following is a specification.

In electric machines provided with commutators, especially those machines which have closed armature windings, where the contact resistance alone is ot'sufiicient to produce a sparkless' revers of the current in the short circuited coils and brush dis placement is not admissible or is insuflicient or producing good commutation, it is usual to arrange. between the main poles of the machine special commutation have fortheir object to induce 1n the short circuited coils the E. M. F. required -for sparkless -.com mutation. These commutation poles must have com aratively powerful exciting windings as ey have not-only to overcome the magnetic reluctance to the passage of the flux of the commutation field across the air aps, but have also to balance the influence 0 the whole armature winding which is effective at' these points. Commutation poles must accordingly be com aratively expensive and also have'other advantages, as they increase theleakagefrom the main poles and limitthe space available for the main exciting windings and decrease the ventilation effect. 1 1

It is the principal object of our tinvention to provide an arrangement which will pro":

duce' practically perfect commutation, but 1 which will at the same time not disturb the magnetic. design of the generator. A further object of our invention resides in the particular arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described.

The disadvantages above mentioned ma be avoided by means of a device whic causes the E. M. F. necessary for commutation to be induced in such a part of'the' short circuited coils that the total number of armature ampere-turns does not act against the exciting winding. It .will be obvious that the E. M. F. necessary for commutation will vary with the load. I

In accordance with the present invention this result is attained by arranging the ,com-

' -rent,. the number of the poles which mutator connectors as one of the on one or more transformers, the other windings of which are supplied with current from an alternator, hereinafter termed a commutation generator, which isdriv'en synchronousl by the main enerator and produces an M. F. of suital le ma wziveform and frequency. Since 0 these commutator connectors attached to t e segments under the brushes are carrying curprimary am turns required on the transformer, a0- eordingly the number of am ere-turns required for the field ma ets o the commutation would arranged in the usual manner.

In the following explanation of the-operation of the device, the transformer or trans formers can be disregardedTsincetheir all pet is only to induce'an- -Ffin the short-circuited coils a which, at'the same time, permits theT-sel'ection of that relation between current and.

potential which is most suitable for the commutation generator. We may accordingly suppose that the commutation eneratord rectly induces an E. M. .F. in t simple e commutetor connectorsof the short partof 4 the armature In the accompanyingdrawingze-s F l is a -s m a vi 9ft? commutator showing the coils under oing commutation "and in which 'the' 1b Fig. '2 is a die Fig. 1 but in which thebrush of two commutator segments.

.Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view has the widthofone.commutatorjsegment. 'i"j.t" i

- Fig. 1 is a diagraznmaticfiview of the" wave form of the electro m'otive force'neces Saryto be produced .-by-therolntnutation generator inorder to produceperfect *cammutation in. the machine illustrated iii Fig. 1..

ammatic view- V of th ewave form of-thecommutatmngenerator' Fig. 3 is anelevational view of a trans- I" 5' former used in connection with 131011." a

our i'nvens V I i Fig. 4 is a SBOtlOIlal view of thetrans former used in Fig. 3 taken at right angles I to 3. I

ino- .commutation in the arrangement shownI m meaning of which will be understood from the following discussion:

Let us assume, firstly, that the width of the brush is equal to the width of a segment, see Fig. 1.

segment II, the current in thecoil a will be changed from +2 to ;i. With correct commutation this change willocrur at a constant rate and the E. M. F. which is to induced in the short-circuited armature coil will be of constant value and will act in the same direction as the current change, that is, u \vardly in the connector 1 with a value equa to +E and downwardly in the connector 2 with a value equal to E. \Vhile the brush passes segment II-there will be induced in the connector2 an E. M. F. equal to +E and in the connector 3 an E. M. F.

equal to -E. It will thereforebe seen that the commutation generator will have an .E. M. F. wave-form -as; shown in Fig. 1, where the period corresponds to the time required for the brush to passtwo segments; If the brush covers=two segments it will be recognizedin thesame manner, see Fi 2; that while the front edge of the brush is -passing the segment III an '31 wardly directed E. M. F. having the Va ue +E will be induced in the connector lland an E. M.

F. having the value E will be-induced in the connector 3, while thcwalucof the E. M. F. in.the connector 2 will be zero. \Vhile a brush asses the segment IVzan E. M. F.

5 having't e.value- +E .wilL-be induced in the connector 2 andan M-.-F. having the value -E"-Ewill"be induced in connector 4,

while the 'EIM. F. in the connector 3 will be zero. The com'muta'tionenerator must 5; accordingly be of the two-p use type and all the odd numbered connectors must be arranged in one phase and all the even numbered connectors in the other phase. The

wave-form of the E. M. F. .of-each base of' the commutation generator is as siown in Fi 2. The period is equal to the time required for the edge of a brush to pass .four 50 ments.

rom similar considerations it will be so readily recognized that when the brush covers three segments the commutation generator will be of the three-phase type. An example of one form of transformer is shown in Figs-3 and 4 which are side view and horizontal sectional view, respec- It will be recognized that. while the brush passes from segment I tocuit.

tivcly. In these figures. Z indicates the laminated iron core, the secondary \vind ings, and mm the primary windings. ()no of thewindingsrg is wound'in one direction andfthe other inrtheothcr'direction, the first being connected-into the lead running to the comu'nitator onone side-0f thearmaturc conductors undergoing commutation and the second'into the lead-at the other side of such-armature conductors. 1

The transformer. just described -is-suitable .for use with rotating fielddy'namos in which the commutator?is'separated -fromthe dynamoor generator-circuit.

The-generators having rotating armatures thecmmfiutati'on-E. M. may be convenientl dfld1l0tklili -the..shnrt.c rcuited part of :t iairmattureezwinding 'infithe "Imanner shown in Fig. 5;--"In.- this"arrangemont the. .core of the commutation transformer 1: has

the form of a laminated ring which is suitably secured on the rotating structure between the commutator and e armature.

The connectors n from the armature winding to the commutator are given the required number of turns around the iron core of the transformer. The commutation generator 0 may be placed outside the main bearing p an be formed with a rotating. armature and a stationary field structure. The supply leads 1' for the primary winding of the commutation transformer are drawn. through a hole t'bored in the shaft 8. The stationary field coils u are traversed by the main current, or a current proportional thereto, from the direct current generator. Thus the main current may pass from brush 6 to coils u through leads a and thence to theouter cir- This arrangement avoids the use of slidin' contactsof any kind for the connections tween the commutation generator and the commutation transformer. Obviously the conductors .g of Fig. 1, or n of Fig. 5, may be connected with machines of other kinds than those described, for instance with-transformers supplied with alternatlng current. from a suitable source, whereby the device may. be used in sets to transform 1 alternating z'current into direct current.

Having thus what we claim is v 1.- The combination with an armature, of a commutator for said armature, leads connecting said armature and said commutator, an alternating current generator having a field magnet separate from the field magnet for said armature, and connections between said generator and said leads. a

2. lhe combination with an armature, of

a commutator for said armature, leads condescribed our invention,

nccting said armature and said commutator,

an alternating current generator having a held magnet separate from the field magnet for said armature, transformers whose secfleeting said; armature an said commutator,

an alternating I current. g nerator having a field magnet separate from the field magnet for said a mat means whereby the excitation oLthe fiel of said alternating current generator is affected by changes in the load on said armature, transformers whose secondary coils are connected into said leads,

' and connections between the primary coils of said transformers and said generator.

4. The combination with an armature, of

a commutator for said armature, leads connecting said armature and said commutator, a source of alternatin current separate from said armature, transf rmers each having one coil connected into one of said leads, and connections between the other coils of said transformers and said source of alternating current.

In testimony whereof we have afiixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

BIRGER LJUNGSTRtjM. AXEL DANIEL WIDSTROM.

'Witnesses:

IM'rA PRIM, Inna GBAAF. 

